Thinking for a Living PB

by Ray Marshall

Book Overview

Why should employers pay American workers much more to work far fewer hours a year than the competition? They won't--unless Americans know more and can do more than the workers with whom they compete.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465085571
• ISBN13: 9780465085576
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Education For Thinkers

I deeply appreciate the marketplace viewpoints about education expressed in Marshall & Tucker's book and believe that it is an important analysis for anyone concerned with the state and direction of education today and tomorrow. Not only do the authors express their frustration with the outmoded Taylor model of classroom structure (tidy rows, teacher in front, stand and deliver--all prep for assembly line work), but also they express their concern for students to be prepared to perform in an international market.Best of all, they spend extra time relating the influence of the Quality movement in business (TQM) and how it can and should relate to American schools in restructuring them for the 21st Century. I remain skeptical about what they say regarding the importance of standards (simply because I believe that too many teachers and community members brow beat students with high stakes testing, false incentives--A's for rewards and F's for threats, and micromanaged, ridiculous objectified norm-referenced tests), but I appreciate their call for international standards to be the only real "norm" by which we should be measuring our students.All in all, this is an excellent study in the background motives for education, the marketplace. Imagine an education course in a major university using this book in a required reading list! (Well, it's that good, but I hope it's not that rare.)